Early Childhood & School Readiness

This report summarizes the discussion at the Emerging Issues in Paternity Disestablishment Expert Symposium convened by ASPE in January 2006 as part of a project that explored how paternity disestablishment may impact child support enforcement and child welfare policies and practice, the broader social context of best interest of the child and fairness and justice, and the social and legal impl

ASPE ISSUE BRIEF Child Care Eligibility and Enrollment Estimates for Fiscal Year 2003 April 2005 This Issue Brief is available on the Internet at:http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/05/cc-elig-est03/

This paper examines the role that states play in providing early childhood education. It reviews evidence on states’ level of support for pre-kindergarten programs, the quality and effectiveness of state-funded pre-kindergarten, and state efforts to build integrated, comprehensive, early childhood systems for children from birth through age five that have a focus on school readiness.

This paper describes the limited educational progress for children in Head Start and the problems resulting from a fragmented approach to early childhood programs and services. The paper also presents evidence from early childhood research and documents state efforts that have successfully addressed these problems.

  Overview   [For a complete overview, see the Advancing States' Child Indicators Initiatives]

  by: Charles J. Lieberman, Vanessa Lindler, and Margaret OBrien-Strain Submitted to: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Submitted by: The SPHERE Institute

Contents Overview:  Project Objectives, Operations, and Key Concerns Overview of Technical Assistance to States Key Project Products and Publications Communicating the Results and Lessons Learned from the Child Indicators Project

Eligibility for CCDF-Funded Child Care Subsidies Under the October 1999 Program Rules: Results from the TRIM3 Microsimulation Model Prepared by: Helen Oliver, Katherin Ross Phillips, Linda Giannarelli, and An-Lon Chen Urban Institute June 2002

Child Care Quality: Does it Matter and Does It Need to be Improved? Executive Summary

A Summary of a Meeting Attended by Grantees of the Advancing States' Child Indicator Initiatives Project and the STATES Initiative/Family Support America Project Saint Paul, February 3 & 4, 2000